Viknesh Vijayenthiran, Editor
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The first few reviews for Mad Max: Fury Road, the fourth installment of the Mad Max franchise developed by George Miller, have come in and so far they’ve mostly been positive. If you...
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2016 Dodge Viper ACR, 2016 Mercedes-AMG A45, Modern-Day Pantera: Today’s Car NewsThe new Dodge Viper ACR is the fastest street-legal Viper ever produced by the men and women at Fiat Chrysler Automobiles’ [NYSE:FCAU] Conner Avenue Assembly Plant. Rather than boost power, the engineers focused on handling mods—the end result is a car that produces 2,000 pounds of...
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Ferdinand Piech’s One-Off Porsche 918 Spyder Spotted In AustriaHe may have just been ousted from the Volkswagen Group but former chairman Ferdinand Piech isn’t about to dump the collection of VW Group cars that he’s amassed over the years. One of his cars, a one-off Porsche 918 Spyder, was recently spotted in Austria though it’s not clear if...
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Will The First 2016 Chevy Camaro Special Edition Be Called The Krypton?The 2016 Chevrolet Camaro hasn’t even been shown yet but there’s already talk about the first special edition model. The sixth-generation Camaro debuts this weekend, and a trademark filing made by General Motors Company [NYSE:GM] may hint at one of the car’s new special editions...
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2016 Mercedes-AMG A45 Spy ShotsMercedes-Benz is preparing a subtle facelift for its A-Class compact hatch sold overseas, and that means the high-performance A45 variant developed by Mercedes-AMG will receive the same round of updates. But beyond the visual tweaks common to the updated A-Class, we hear Mercedes-AMG’s...
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2017 Scion FR-S To Receive New Look, More Power: ReportScion’s FR-S (and the car’s Subaru BRZ and Toyota GT 86 cousins) was launched on the market with great fanfare back in 2012 but since then sales have fizzled, with Scion managing to move just a thousand of the cars in April, down 29 percent on levels a year ago. The lack of sales has...
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Even five years after its launch, the previous-generation Dodge Viper ACR is still one of the fastest production cars around a track, with only the all-wheel-drive Nissan GT-R NISMO and Porsche 918...
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Jaguar Planning Both XE R And XE SVR Performance Models: ReportJaguar Land Rover’s SVR badge can already be found on the Range Rover Sport SUV, and soon it will appear on the F-Type sports car, but the British automaker has much more ambitious plans for its fledgling performance brand. Only yesterday we learned about a Range Rover Evoque SVR and now we...
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Designer Envisions A Modern De Tomaso PanteraA couple of weeks ago we learned that dormant Italian sports car brand De Tomaso was sold to a Chinese consortium for a little over $1 million, and that the new owner would most likely end up slapping the De Tomaso badge on a sedan built in China, as opposed to a new sports car built in Italy...
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Land Rover Range Rover Evoque SVR In The Works?Talk of a more potent Range Rover Evoque from Land Rover dates back several years, but even with the vehicle having just undergone its mid-cycle update we’re still without a version offering any serious performance upgrades. However, with the recent establishment of the Special Vehicle...
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Aeromobil Flying Car Crashes During Test FlightDespite the list of difficulties of getting a flying car into production being a vast one, there’s no shortage of enterprising businessmen and women trying to be the first to offer one to the public. However, reminding us all rather graphically why the business of selling flying cars...
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2016 BMW 7-Series, 2016 Chevy Camaro, 2016 Ford Mustang California Special: Car News HeadlinesBMW’s new 7-Series has been revealed once again in a leaked photo. This time the photo shows the full side detail of the upcoming flagship sedan; it joins previous leaked shots showing the front and rear sections as well as the interior. Chevrolet’s new Camaro is set for its own reveal...
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Chevrolet has released what’s likely to be the last of its teasers for the sixth-generation Camaro muscle car due to be unveiled to the public at a special event being held at Detroit’s...
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Volvo picks South Carolina for US plantVolvo has confirmed plans for a new vehicle assembly plant just outside of Charleston, South Carolina. The Swedish automaker, whose parent company is Chinese firm Geely, is committed to spending up to $500 million to establish the new plant, which is scheduled to come online in 2018 and initially...
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2016 Ford Mustang Gets Minor Updates, California SpecialThe sixth-generation Mustang has been in showrooms for less than a year but already we’ve seen a new track-focused Shelby variant introduced and a host of tuning firms announce mega-horsepower packages for the muscle car icon. Now the Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] has announced a new round of...
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Nico Rosberg Back In The Championship Race After Winning 2015 Spanish Grand PrixAfter pushing hard throughout the 2015 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya, Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg ended the weekend with a decisive victory. His teammate Lewis Hamilton was second, but the current 2015 Drivers’ Championship points leader finished...
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2015 Roush RS3 Mustang Delivers 670 HP and 545 LB-FT: VideoTired of Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat owners having all of the fun at the drag strip? For any sixth-generation Mustang owners out there, famous Ford Motor Company [NYSE:F] tuner Roush has a package that may just silence those Hellcat owners. It’s called the RS3, short for Roush Stage 3, and...
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Volkswagen Presents Next-Gen W-12 Engine At Vienna Motor SymposiumThe future of the Volkswagen Group’s W-12 is safe thanks to innovations that ensure the big brute of an engine meets more stringent emissions regulations coming into force over the next several years. At the past week’s Vienna Motor Symposium, the same event where Audi presented its...
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Mercedes AMG’s Nico Rosberg showed he’s still a force to be reckoned with in the 2015 Formula One World Championship by securing pole position for this weekend’s Spanish Grand Prix,...
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2016 Mercedes G-Class, Kahn WB12 Vengeance, Freightliner Inspiration Truck: This Week’s Top PhotosMercedes-Benz announced a round of updates for its iconic G-Class off-roader this week. While the big news was the addition of a new V-8 engine in the G550 model, the G63 from the Mercedes-AMG performance division also received some extra horsepower from its own V-8. The BMW 3-Series has just...
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2016 Dodge Viper ACR street-legal racer revealedThe Dodge Viper American Club Racer has become the stuff of legend. The track-focused but street-legal machine was first launched in 1999 and by its second generation had already smashed the Nürburgring lap record for a production car with a time of 7:12.13, a feat surpassed only by the...
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Audi TT Clubsport Turbo, Volkswagen GTI Clubsport, Bugatti Veyron Desk: Today’s Car NewsAudi has taken the wraps off a new concept that may just preview the next-generation TT RS. The concept is called the TT Clubsport Turbo, and it features a 2.5-liter five-cylinder engine with an electrically-driven turbocharger and 600-horsepower output. Volkswagen has a Clubsport concept of its...
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2015 Formula One Spanish Grand Prix Weather ForecastThe Spanish Grand Prix, the first of the European races in the 2015 Formula One World Championship, got underway this morning in beautiful Barcelona with the first of the free practice sessions. The event’s Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya home is a familiar one for all the teams, as it was...
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Porsche Inaugurates New U.S. Headquarters And Experience CenterPorsche Cars North America has called Atlanta, Georgia home since 1998, but it’s gone and made that arrangement even more permanent. The German sports car manufacturer has just opened a new headquarters and experience center on a 27-acre site adjacent to Atlanta’s Hartsfield-Jackson...
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